"If you will be traveling Internationally, you must notify IT before you leave the US for us to apply the discounted travel plans to your phone. Verizon cannot guarantee that the activation will work if we switch your plans while you are out of the country."

Received this in response.

"I am in India. Leaving for Thailand on Thursday. Can you notify them to switch on for my phone in Thailand today?"

be·fore
/bɪˈfɔr, -ˈfoʊr/ Show Spelled[bih-fawr, -fohr]
preposition
1.previous to; earlier or sooner than: Phone me before noon.
2.in front of; ahead of; in advance of: his shadow advancing before him; She stood before the window.
3.ahead of; in the future of; awaiting: The golden age is before us.
4.in preference to; rather than: They would die before surrendering.
5.in precedence of, as in order or rank: We put freedom before wealth.

you
/yu; unstressed yʊ, yə/ Show Spelled [yoo; unstressed yoo, yuh] pronoun, possessive your or yours, objective you, plural you; noun, plural yous.
pronoun
1.the pronoun of the second person singular or plural, used of the person or persons being addressed, in the nominative or objective case: You are the highest bidder. It is you who are to blame. We can't help you. This package came for you. Did she give you the book?
2.one; anyone; people in general: a tiny animal you can't even see.
3.(used in apposition with the subject of a sentence, sometimes repeated for emphasis following the subject): You children pay attention. You rascal, you!
4.Informal . (used in place of the pronoun your before a gerund): There's no sense in you getting upset.
5.Archaic .
a.yourself; yourselves: Get you home. Make you ready.
b.a plural form of the pronoun ye.

leave
1 /liv/ Show Spelled [leev] verb, left, leav·ing.
verb (used with object)
1.to go out of or away from, as a place: to leave the house.
2.to depart from permanently; quit: to leave a job.
3.to let remain or have remaining behind after going, disappearing, ceasing, etc.: I left my wallet home. The wound left a scar.
4.to allow to remain in the same place, condition, etc.: Is there any coffee left?
5.to let stay or be as specified: to leave a door unlocked.

the
1 /stressed ði; unstressed before a consonant ðə; unstressed before a vowel ði/ Show Spelled[stressed thee; unstressed before a consonant thuh; unstressed before a vowel thee]
definite article
1.(used, especially before a noun, with a specifying or particularizing effect, as opposed to the indefinite or generalizing force of the indefinite article a or an ): the book you gave me; Come into the house.
2.(used to mark a proper noun, natural phenomenon, ship, building, time, point of the compass, branch of endeavor, or field of study as something well-known or unique): the sun; the Alps; the Queen Elizabeth; the past; the West.
3.(used with or as part of a title): the Duke of Wellington; the Reverend John Smith.
4.(used to mark a noun as indicating the best-known, most approved, most important, most satisfying, etc.): the skiing center of the U.S.; If you're going to work hard, now is the time.
5.(used to mark a noun as being used generically): The dog is a quadruped.

United States

noun
a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with Alaska and Hawaii, 3,615,122 sq. mi. (9,363,166 sq. km). Capital: Washington, D.C. Abbreviation: U.S., US

"If you will be traveling Internationally, you must notify IT before you leave the US for us to apply the discounted travel plans to your phone. Verizon cannot guarantee that the activation will work if we switch your plans while you are out of the country."

Received this in response.

"I am in India. Leaving for Thailand on Thursday. Can you notify them to switch on for my phone in Thailand today?"

I'm not going to make it through the week...

I can only HOPE that the user "originated" in USA, and is on a worldwide tour, and his/her current stopover is in India, en route to Thailand.

Otherwise, I think you should be happy that someone at least OPENED e-mail from IT, even if they didn't read it in detail.

Otherwise, I think you should be happy that someone at least OPENED e-mail from IT, even if they didn't read it in detail.

That is a very good point, she gets a prize for both reading & responding to an IT email. She also gets to bring you a nice present from each lovely country she is visiting for reading the email but not actually understanding it!!

almost enough to make me want to work on the *#!@*!!!#@#! not even 2 week old fax machine some more. when will people learn that peel and stick labels should not be run through the auto-doc feeder. i was told by a RN that i should be happy, since most of them didn't get stuck, so only a few will need reprinted...and refaxed. she obviously so doesn't get it, i just walked away and took several deep breaths along the way.

object needed...ice-pick ..place in between eyeball and nose...strick with force while slamming face into desk/wall/ground.